When Your S.O. Has a Different Vocation Than You
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“You are not an extra in someone else’s vocation story.”
We all know breakups are tough, and most of the time they are occasions of intense sadness and hurt, but what happens when your significant other breaks up with you for the religious life? Do you feel angry that they didn’t realize their vocation sooner, guilty for wanting to be with them, or just sad that you’re not who they’re meant to be with? Reactions to this kind of heartbreak are unpredictable, but the important thing to remember is that you have a vocation of your own, and it’s not any less important than the person entering religious life.
Today, Father Mike shares his story of leaving a relationship to enter the seminary.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, it's a little dark. |
| 0:04.0 | I know it is light outside, but I don't know. |
| 0:06.3 | It's kasy. |
| 0:07.4 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.2 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascentive Resents. |
| 0:19.0 | When I was called to be a priest, when I was called to check out seminary, I had been |
| 0:23.0 | dating a young woman for a number of years at that point. |
| 0:26.1 | In my mind, I was all set. |
| 0:27.4 | I was ready to go. |
| 0:31.0 | I wanted to marry her and spend the rest of my life with her. |
| 0:33.8 | It was a seminary. |
| 0:34.8 | It was called to do that. |
| 0:35.8 | Since that's part of my story, I get to talk with a lot of young women or young men |
| 0:40.9 | whose significant other has broken up with them because they're pursuing the seminary |
| 0:45.1 | or they're entering the content. |
| 0:48.2 | They want to know what was her story, the woman I was dating, what happened to her? |
| 0:54.4 | They're asking the question, what do I do? |
| 0:55.9 | This girl is dating, entered the content. |
| 0:57.7 | What do I do? |
| 0:58.7 | This guy who was dating entered the seminary. |
| 1:00.2 | What do I do? |
| 1:01.2 | This is the temptation. |
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